Why do people want to join the military?
Yes, I might be a bit judgmental but here is how I feel. Most of the people who join the military because they did not work hard during their high school years that help them get into a good university. They lack the disciples and motivations to make their life better. They think joining the military will help build some disciplines in them and help them find some motivations in life. Apparently, I see military as a four year summer camp that cut off from the rest of world by brainwash them. real men can stand back up even if they fall a thousands and continues chase after their dream. Yeah you work for your nation where they get pay worst than mini wage, 70K in four years working 24/7. Most people who join are from the ghetto because they do not have what it takes to be in the real world. Oh! the excuse of serve the country. Look at our nation, please open their freaking eyes; have a war in Iraq for oil, cut down all the educational funding all, reduce senior funding where they also serve the country as well as anyone, and oh! we re-elect the stupid selfish president Bush as our president where he allowed the oil companies to totally rip us off! Serving the nation! Please! Our era of justices and righteousness are over. The time where we defend our self during WWII, the time we protect the human equality during Civil War, those times are over. Yeah! after four years they serve the nation, deep down they are the same person they once were. Too bad summer camp is over. Oh! If you don't know, our government who is controlled by extreme high class people can't afford to let their sons and daughters do their dirty works for them, so they use those worthless stupid idiots fight their battle for them for selfish reason. yeah, way to go! American huh. I want to keep going, but whatever. Have fun serving your country.
Why do motor bikes have a 1 down rest up gear shift pattern, and not a sequential pattern?
Mostly a matter of convenience, and a small bit of safety.Motorcycles have almost always had sequential gearboxes - meaning you cannot shift from first to fourth, for instance. Whether the shift pattern is 1-down 4/5-up or otherwise basically depends on the location of the freewheeling neutral gear in this sequence of cogs. The shift patterns on the earliest geared motorcycles were also likewise, and many commuter motorcycles especially in my part of the world still continue with this format for its simplicity.Somewhere down the motorcycle engine evolution, I'm guessing sometime in the 40s, enough torque became available to eliminate any real use for the first gear unless taking off from a standing start - one didn't really need first gear while riding around. This allowed the neutral gear to come between the second and the first cog, dividing the shifting range between [Second-Top, for riding around] and [First, for taking off].Coming to the safety angle, having a drive gear at either end of the gearbox makes it more difficult to get into neutral accidentally - you shift down one gear too many, the worst that can happen is a small tail slide as your rear slows down too fast in first. If one were to hit neutral in this situation, there'd be no drive, diminished grip, and some sweat inside the helmet.
Why do bikes not have automatic gear shifting? Why isn’t there an engine which will shift automatically, according to the speed?
There are bikes with automatic transmission, they just don’t evince as much interest as manual transmission bikes.The Honda NC700 and VFR1200, for example. There are also bikes/mopeds with manual but clutchless gear-shift, like the Hero Honda Street and TVS Jive.The main reason why automatic transmission isn’t popular on motocycles is that those on the low end of the displacement scale are popular for fuel efficiency, which is less with automatics transmissions. Now you can make automatic transmission so advanced it can offer better fuel efficiency that manual, but then the cost of such transmissions means they no longer remain cheap, economical bikes. At the high end of the market, motorcyclists want power and performance, and manual gearbox helps rider to ride the way they want - rev to the redline or ride the torque curve, use engine braking etc., which you can’t do with an automatic transmission - at least not until you have expensive, programmable/drive mode switchable transmissions as now available on some premium cars.
49cc Automatic Transmission Stuck in gear. HELP!!!?
OK so yesterday i got a 49cc Super Pocket Bike from my older cousin. it had bad gas so i drained the gas out and mixed some new stuff (fuel ratio 20:1) its a 2 stroke. i got it started for a sec but then it died and i tried to pull start it again but the rope wouldn't budge. and the back wheel wont move because the chain is being pulled tight from being in gear. i need some kind of help please i have no idea what to do. there is a R6 Symbol kind of thing on the side. please tell me something that's worth listening to. -Luke
What is it like to ride with ape hangers?
I once swapped bikes with a buddy who's bike had ape hangers. It took awhile to get used to, scratch that I could never quite get used to it. The bike always felt as though it wanted to fall into a lean, I found that kinda unsettling. Late into the ride it began to rain, that is where a guy will begin to hate them since rain drops hurt in the armpits. For me it would never be worth it, but then again I cannot quiet understand why a person would want a bike that cannot out accelerate an average car.
Why can't airplanes land like helicopters?
Military aircraft can land vertically!!!Check this out: F-35 performs its first fully vertical landing.When it comes to passenger aircraft, it's possible if you can tilt the engines of a plane by 90 degrees so that they throw their exhaust air down.Moreover you have to add extra engines on the tailplane to balance the aircraft in order to avoid pitching.However, this would require additional transverse axles at the wing joints so that they could rotate them and whatever engine(s) at the tailplane.It would also reduce the efficiency of the aircraft. Why? Because the plane is initially attaining horizontal ground speed prior to landing and to land vertically the plane has to be stationary first. (More like hovering mode.)It would also reduce the payload of such an aircraft because of additional functions that were added.Now what aircraft company would want to make all of these costly sacrifices just to make the aircraft land vertically when there are runways available at convenient places around the globe???Hope that answered your query.Cheers!Update: Thanks to Christopher Stanton for the edits.
What was the plot story to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2?
I didn't get who was the true bad guy. First you're with the special unit guys chasing some guy through Favela and then you try and get Markov or Matkav or whatever that guy's name is. Was that guy Russian or something? I got how when you were a spy acting like a terrorist in the airport and then that guy kills you and russia gets pissed to know an American spy was responsible for the killings and making all of Russia think that Americans did it . . . I get that. Then how Russia attacks the United States . . . I get that. But the ending I didn't get. That guy Shephard . . . I don't understand how in the game you go from being American soldiers protecting the homefront to being British soldiers and killing American soldiers. Then as you play as captain Price and Soap and go through their mission they get assistance from a Russian guy!!! Can someone explain this to me please!!!